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You've probably had Microsoft Office on just about every computer you've ever owned. And so, you might think you know all there is to know. Except that's where you might be wrong.
Advanced Office proficiency is still a real and in-demand skill—and there's a lot more to know than just how to knock up a quick PowerPoint. 
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It's not easy keeping up with every sex term out there. Just ask this guy on Reddit who had a slight miscommunication with his Tinder match. 
Reddit user notaninterestinguser posted a screenshot of his conversation with Rose, who might be a scam account, but who is apparently super into role play.
After Rose confirms that she's into a little fantasy on her bio, our guy takes her on a whole different kind of journey than she was probably expecting.Not exactly the sexiest of role play scenari

Google’s research division today detailed just how easy it is for computer algorithms to bypass standard photo watermarking practices, stripping those images of copyright protection and making them vulnerable to reposting across the internet without credit. The research, presented at a leading computer vision conference in Hawaii back in July, is described in detail in a paper titled, “On the Effectiveness of Visible Watermarks.”
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Almost exactly ten years ago, the first-ever iPhone came into the world. And aside from, you know, revolutionizing communication—it caught on because it was so beautifully designed. It turns out that making things look amazing is harder than it seems, and a lot of its predecessors were pretty ugly.
Know what we mean? Then maybe you want to become a designer yourself. A good way to get sta

Silver Logic Labs (SLL) is in the people business. Technically, it’s an AI startup, but what it really does is figure out what people want. At first glance they’ve simply found a better way to do focus-groups, but after talking to CEO Jerimiah Hamon we’ve learned there’s nothing simple about the work he’s doing. The majority of AI in the world is being taught to do boring stuff. The machines are learning to analyze data, and scrape websites. They’re being for

It is an irrefutable fact that solar eclipses are amazing.
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And you don't have to do that much digging for proofGizmodo's Matt Novak shared this tweet today, which led me to searching for the above video. It's a 10-minute clip collection from ABC News' coverage of the last large-scale total solar eclipse to be seen in the lower 48 U.S. states. The event occurred in February of 1979, and the path of totality swept across five states.
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HBO's app has set a new record and, of course, it's all because of Game of Thrones. 
The company's streaming app, HBO Now, has been the top-grossing app in the App Store for two days in a row now, beating out Netflix, Tinder, Candy Crush, and all the other apps that typically dominate the top of the charts.
SEE ALSO: Hackers say they stole 1.5 terabytes from HBO. Here's what that means.
It even just experienced its single best day ever. It's been more than a year since the app last reached

How did the chicken cross the road? By wearing a bright pink vest, of course!
A bed and breakfast in Perthshire, Scotland, gave their hens a makeover that's both fashionable and functional — they were given high-visibility vests for protection while they crossed the road.
Louise Lennox, owner of Glenshieling House on Hatton Road, Blairgowrie, shared this video on the Glenshieling House Facebook page of some of her chickens sporting their new garb while taking a stroll in the street.SEE ALS

Crime Time™ is back at 8 p.m. Pacific tonight. That’s when the Games Industry Family Chicken Dinner Invitational Tournament returns to GamesBeat’s Twitch channel. Like last week, this is a silly night of custom PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds matches where folks that work in and around the games business come together to murder each other in the last-player-standing shooter. Last Friday, we played well into Saturday morning, and you can find some of the best moments right h

Barclays has installed devices that track how often bankers are at their desks.
Managers were peppered with queries when investment bank staff in London discovered black boxes stuck to the underside of their desks in recent months, according to several Barclays employees who asked not to be identified speaking about their workplace. They turned out to be tracking devices called OccupEye, which use heat and motion sensors to record how long employees are spending at their posts.
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EXCLUSIVE: Roofing may not be the sexiest thing to think about, but having a solid roof over your head is vital, especially in earthquake-prone places like San Francisco. Roofr, which will be graduating from Y Combinator (YC) next week, developed a satellite imagery software that analyzes the state of your roof to determine whether it needs to be replaced.
“Homeowners usually need a new roof because it’s leaking, shingles are falling off, or it looks worn out,” said Roofr found

The next time a video shows up at the top of your Google search results, it might start playing automatically — fortunately, with the sound muted.
Google is beginning to add what it calls “video previews” to search results. They’ll start out on Android, where they’ll appear for searches made in Chrome and the Google app. At first, they’ll only be in English and in the US, but Google plans to expand the feature globally and in all languages in the future. A spo

Several major Hollywood studios are in talks with Apple and Comcast, according to a report from Bloomberg. The two forces could potentially create a premium rental service which would offer movies to consumers a scant two weeks after their debut in theaters. Needless to say, this could cut into movie theater  profits, if not phase them out of the equation entirely. According to the report, the deal’s proponents propose to include major theater companies in the profits if they ap

Google is working on a set of tools to better help news publishers boost paid subscriptions and earn more revenue from readers, according to a report from Bloomberg. These new features include an expansion of a service that better prioritizes content traditional trapped behind a paywall in search results by offering it free through the company’s Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP, platform.Google is also looking for ways to help publishers better identify potential subscribers through AMP we

Travis Kalanick—a vocal fighter against taxi lobbyists, government regulations, pink mustache businesses, and tech giant Google—is speaking out again.
Uber's former CEO filed a 15-page response to investor Benchmark Capital's lawsuit against him this week. The venture capital firm accused Kalanick of fraud, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty in a lawsuit filed last week. 
SEE ALSO: Texts between Uber's Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski are juicy
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Prepare for an absolute sweetness overload as you watch this 97-year-old grandpa ride in a Tesla for the first time.
His grandson told him about the car, but he could hardly fathom all the things the electric car was capable of doing. So they decided take a little joy ride to test it out.
As they drove through town, the grandpa was feeling a bit like he was in the future. At one point, he was taken aback at how quickly the car could pick up momentum and joked, “you gotta have a parachute

Monday's solar eclipse will surely be an unforgettable sight for anyone bearing witness to it. And now, an app is aiming to bring the experience of the eclipse to people who can't necessarily see it in the sky.
The app — developed by the Eclipse Soundscapes Project — is designed to give people who are blind or have low vision a multi-sensory experience, even if they can't see the sky. 
SEE ALSO: You can damage your eyes in mere seconds during the solar eclipse
The project includ

Fair warning: If you find yourself suddenly dizzy or if you need to take a quick break by the end of this article, know that you are not alone.
In a segment that aired on Friday, CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin decided to list off all of the significant events that have happened with Trump in the last few weeks.
It seems like a standard enough task except ... the list was so ridiculously long and full of of all completely batsh*t occurrences from the White House that even Baldwin herself had to stop a

Jon Stewart might not have the The Daily Show platform at his disposal any longer, but that hasn't stopped the comedian from sharing his political stream of consciousness with the world. 
During one of Dave Chappelle's Radio City Music Hall residency shows, surprise guest Stewart took the opportunity to share his thoughts about Charlottesville, Donald Trump, and nazis. As you can imagine, they were harsh and hilarious. 
Sopan Deb, culture reporter for the New York Times, was in attenda

China’s new cyber-court in the city of Hangzhou will start hearing cases today that exclusively deal with e-commerce and internet-related cases, according to China Law Blog. The court will have the ability to handle all aspects of a case online from beginning to end.
The court will accept filings electronically and try cases via live stream for the following areas of dispute: contract disputes arising from online shopping, product liability disputes arising from online shopping, internet s

Bandai Namco is bringing its hit fighting game franchise Tekken to iOS and Android. The mobile version of Tekken soft launches in Canada today, although the publisher plans for a global launch at an unspecified date.
Tekken on mobile will feature a single-player story mode and online versus matches. Players can collect over 100 characters, and they can also customize characters with different moves and upgrades. The Tekken series is one of the biggest fighting game franchises. The latest entry f

Sonos plans to release new speakers with built-in microphones, likely with Alexa built in, and it wants to make sure you get every single hint. Its latest tease is an update to its privacy policy to cover voice assistants and microphones, which includes a not-so-subtle hint that voice-enabled Sonos products aren’t far off.
Voice control works by your voice-enabled Sonos Product “listening” for a specific wake word. Please note that not all Sonos Products are voice-enabled.
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It’s no secret that Atlanta is an epicenter for payment processing companies — they don’t call it Transaction Alley for nothing. That designation, along with the prospect of growing its partnerships, joining a thriving ecosystem, and receiving support from organizations like the Atlanta Fintech Taskforce and the Metro Atlanta Chamber, attracted Paymetric to the state. Originally based in Texas, the enterprise payments company moved its headqua

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the head of one of the world’s most valuable and influential corporations, says he plans on taking two months of paternity leave when his second daughter is born. In a post published to his public Facebook account today, Zuckerberg explained that he took the same amount of time when his first daughter, Max, was born in 2015. “I will always be grateful I could spend so much time with her in the first months of her life,” Zuckerberg wrote. “Our

After decades of operating in the shadows of the web, online racists are now the focus of deserved intense anger and sudden action by the entities that once blithely hosted them.
While there's never been a tacit endorsement from the internet's gatekeepers (those who host content, services, product offers, etc.), neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and racists do spread their message of hate through an ever-growing network of websites, social media accounts, video and newsletters. 
But after the

Last October, a flood of traffic from the Mirai botnet brought down major portions of the internet, blocking access to Amazon, Netflix, and other services for most of the northeastern US. It was a painful reminder of the fragility of the internet and the danger of insecure internet-of-things devices — but despite the broad scale of the damage, new research presented today at the Usenix conference suggests the attackers may have just been trying to kick people off PlayStation.
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This post contains spoilers for the finale of The Defenders, so unless you've finished episode 8, make like Danny and get lost.We were honestly expecting a higher body count from The Defenders — okay, so Stick and The Hand bit it, but that's NBD — but in the end, all of our heroes and their closest allies made it out of the crossover miniseries in one piece... except for Misty Knight.
During a showdown with Hand member Bakuto, Misty threw herself into harm's way to save Claire Templ

Airbnb is looking to lend support to those affected by the recent terror attack in Barcelona, Spain.
After a van drove through crowds on Thursday, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more, Airbnb activated its disaster response tool to help connect people in need of shelter and other accommodations with hosts in the area who've chosen to open their homes for free.
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Henrik Fisker’s next electric car act is apparently imminent. The Fisker EMotion will be shown at CES 2018 in January, promising a 400-mile electric range.
Fisker told The Street on Friday that the EMotion’s Las Vegas unveil will also focus on the car’s technology, which is expected to include a new type of battery pack with the ability to charge in nine minutes, comfortably ahead of the 30-minute Tesla Supercharger charge time. Fisker has previously said this would be possible

Monday’s total solar eclipse is nearly here… and so is Android O, apparently. Google invited the press to an event on Monday for the official reveal for the next version of Android – and by this point we’re fairly convinced it’ll be called Oreo. For everyone else, Google will be livestreaming the Android O reveal starting at 2:40PM EST, just a few minutes before peak eclipse time. Considering most people won’t be in the path of totality, Google will let you

Around 11AM ET, all traces of Taylor Swift disappeared from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr, and her official website.She’s been relatively quiet on social media all year, and last fall she broke with her tradition of releasing an album every other October. So, fans and amateur sleuths started digging through the source code of her website within minutes, looking for clues as to what was going on. Some guessed new music; some guessed a hack. Then Tumblr spat out hundreds of screenshot

The Mother of all home goods is back.
Per Jezebel, the deeply confusing business run by Karen Pence is back online after being "on hold" for what we assume was several months. 
In case you were distracted by literally anything else happening in this trash country, Towel Charms are little metal baubles that you hook onto your towels. They are intended to help you distinguish your towel from another person's identical towel, a problem that is apparently a huge deal to our second lady.
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They promised us beauty. They said the sky was the limit. They told us that how we interact with the world would change in profound, innumerable ways. 
They never said anything about Windows error messages shitting all over our augmented reality dreams. And yet, surprise surprise, that is exactly where we find ourselves. 
SEE ALSO: Get ready for augmented reality *everything*
Apple's ARKit has put AR in the hands of developers around the world, and what they choose to create will shape

(Reuters) — The biotech industry is facing high rents and tight lab space in Boston, New York and San Francisco, forcing companies into the suburbs in a sign the “live, work and play” movement into big cities may have hit a roadblock.
For example, Modern Meadow, a biotech start-up poised to commercially manufacture leather from synthetic animal protein, was looking at a prohibitive $200 million cost to build its own lab in New York City.
Instead, it found existing lab space at

With the solar eclipse just days away, everyone is trying to get their hands on a last-minute pair of eclipse glasses. But what if you don't have $250 to spend on a pair because you spent too much money on pizza the night before?
In a new video, Pizza Hut demonstrates how to use last night's pizza box to make your own  eclipse viewer, so you can enjoy the event without burning your eyes. All you need is a cardboard pizza box, foil, scissors, pen, tape and a sheet of white paper — all

If you're still reeling from Sunday's Lannister revelation on Game of Thrones, you're not alone. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, who plays Jaime Lannister, said his character is so excited to be a father (again) that he's sitting out Sunday to celebrate.
SEE ALSO: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau tells us what Jaime thinks about Cersei's big news
"Jaime's gonna be a dad," Coster-Waldau told Yahoo! News. "Which is why he's not in episode 6 on Sunday, because he's so excited he's decorating the nursery. And he's chos

In a move that is honestly should not be surprising at this point, members from another one of Donald Trump's committees have resigned. 
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, which includes members from across the entertainment industry, published an open letter to Trump Friday that condemns the president's comments regarding Charlottesville and white supremacy—and includes a secret message, if you pay close attention. 
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